Friday, January 31, 2020 - 12:30pm to Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium, FA2, Falconer Hall, 84 Queens Park

Mary and Philip Seeman Health Law, Policy & Ethics Seminar Series

Presents:

Jody Madeira
Indiana University, Maurer School of Law & Co-director Center for Law, Society and Culture

Commentator: Michaël Lessard, SJD student University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and lawyer

Understanding Illicit Insemination and Fertility Fraud, from Patient experience to legal reform

 

Friday, January 31, 2020
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park
Solarium (FA2)

Bio: Jody Madeira joined the Indiana Law faculty in 2007. Her scholarly interests involve empirical research; the role of emotion in law; the sociology of law; law, medicine, and bioethics; and the Second Amendment. Her most recent book, Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception (University of California Press, 2018), takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals, confronting difficult decisions, and negotiating informed consent. Based on a wealth of qualitative and quantitative data (130 patient interviews, 83 interviews with reproductive medical professionals, and 267 patient surveys), Madeira investigates how women, men, and their care providers can utilize trust to collaboratively negotiate infertility’s personal, physical, spiritual, ethical,  medical, and legal minefields.  

For further workshop details contact events.law@utoronto.ca